today's news in the week's top stories in our t.v. u.s. lays into israel over its plans to build three thousand more settler homes and leave the after the palestinians u.n. status is upgraded. egypt is divided as tens of thousands rallied to both support and oppose president morsi with a referendum on a controversial new constitution is set for two weeks time. and the world's top whistle blower promises more sensational revelations next year we talked to judy in the sound clips of interview. good to have you company i'm andrey farmer the u.s.

is trying to stay israel and the palestinians back to the negotiating table but so far to no avail washington has criticized israel to prove three thousand more sessile homes in disputed territories the move came immediately after the u.n. voted to upgrade palestine to observer state status despite america's opposition artie's polis lir now looks at how the vote affects the situation in the middle east. it might have been a foregone conclusion but that didn't dampen the jubilation on the streets of palestine overwhelming support for upgraded palestinian state has to a nonmember observer state in the un one hundred thirty eight voting in favor nine against forty one abstentions it's an important political and legal victory to hold israel accountable in a practical way on its violations the national law and its violations of the rights of the palestinian people especially on the expansion of illegal settlements

palestinians can now apply to join the international criminal court and other global organizations giving them better bargaining chips in dealing with israel but it came at a price within hours tel aviv announced it was building three thousand more homes in the west bank a sure sign that the situation on the ground won't change overnight does it's not a step forward it's a step aside or even you know a step. back that's really a pity that the international community gives hand to this violation the u.s. was also quick to cast a cloud over the palestinian party may be unfortunate and counterproductive resolution at the united nations general assembly that just passed today is grand pronouncements will soon see. and the palestinian people will wake up tomorrow and find that little about their lives has changed but washington's unflinching support

for tel aviv has separated from some of its longtime allies in the un more and more countries are turning their back on decades of negotiations that have led nowhere what has changed has been the continual failure of the us controlled so-called peace process to lead to any kind of end to occupation and what i think was the catalyst here is that political pressure on other matters and on the palestinian authority from their own population from their own people who were saying you know what we've had twenty one years of failed diplomacy we're not looking for twenty two we want something different and that's something means a real shift in policy first and foremost the consensus on the international stage is that israel needs to stop building settlements deemed illegal by the un and certainly be international community you know is a horse. a provocation which heroes of course are going to run so

called. it was a little more than a year ago that palestinian president mahmoud abbas came to the un in a bid for statehood since then tel aviv and washington's approach to the middle east conflict has gained them an ever shrinking minority of supporters the irony is that the bid was passed on the watches of israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his rightwing foreign minister avigdor lieberman it was last year that lieberman boasted in the united nations that the moral majority of western states was with his role it now turns out he was wrong and whether israel once it or not it's increasingly clear that something needs to give policy r.t. tel aviv. tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of egypt this week in rival rallies by for and against president morsi and in the islamist back to draft constitution morsi has set the date for a national referendum on the chart of fifteen weeks time amid harsh criticism from

opponents who claim the draft undermines basic democratic freedoms. brings us this report from kyra. unrest returns to the streets after the revolution that toppled hosni mubarak after the election that brought in mohamed morsi egypt is in turmoil once again these round the clock protests have been going on for over a week now it resembles early two thousand and eleven when hosni mubarak was removed from power but that was nearly two years ago shouldn't the revolution have ended by now the mood on top risk where became defiant again after last week's to krieble president morsi meaning his decisions would face new legal challenge we had the revolution to get rid of a tyrant a dictator. and we in in order to do that we made elections and we rid of aleutian and with elections to choose someone to the present us and turned out that this guy is also a tyrant himself however morsi claims his new powers are only temporary he nor any

of the duke de bakey two in the world hitler will be will tell you it is a temporary thing it is full emergency it did pull does the serious the same thing sift usable on the president that will block and we stayed under emergency law for seventy years opponents say egypt's new constitution is too islamist could set the country on the road to religious dictatorship for some sections of society are keen to show their support for morsi and their scorn for judges who would block the constitution now i'm here to support the first the most you from so patient might it be for them is opposition from the constitutional court. or most of us knows that since. the most it is that he got elected by the people when it was that they fired for to his failure the rifts in society are undeniable and perhaps more even than or for a tarion ism the fear is that chaos will tear apart any games made by the revolution this is something new in egypt that's why it's it's more sitting in

a way where you find that people are facing each other in the streets in the ministrations and facing that type of violence from islamic groups egypt's president its government its courts its very constitution and now matters of heated debate one of the few things moved to gyptian do seem to agree on after the long night of mubarak a new day is proving inducive tom bottom party. well the u.s. says it will withhold judgment on egypt's new draft constitution despite allegations it discriminates against minorities and is aimed at curbing basic rights however independent journalist charlie mcgrath says washington's interests in the region are far from promoting democracy in the region has been thrown into economic chaos and which is ironic you know that this is the be the place on this planet where there are still easy cheap aircrew to go after but the region is if

you know the police the stabilized politically the stabilized and so you see frustration beginning with the arab spring that's what you know everybody called it when it began but it is the frustration is still there you know that you know it and i think the west is going along we encourage the structural change the west is mvp in this are ready you know we really need to cut off even if you don't have to use them in the first place but we don't you cannot aid you didn't step up and do something in the gaza situation where there is talk at least it is a wait is today about nato putting missile batteries in turkey to prevent any so-called weapons of mass destruction coming out of syria into turkey. we have our administration now that wants to go ahead and put arms directly in the hands of the libyan rebels the so-called freedom project i believe my opinion is this is a direct attempt to be stabilize this region because when it's the stabilizer there is no governing authority it makes it really easy for

a big corporate special oil interests to be in there getting yet that the energy resource. the world's most notorious whistleblower julian assange just promising a new sensational explosion next year equal to the release of thousands of secret american diplomatic cables two years ago in an exclusive interview with r.t. the wiki leaks you also claims the us is becoming a totalitarian state with the help of social media. problem is that all the time everyone nearly everything they do on the internet is permanently recorded every web search to know what you were thinking one year two days three months ago or you don't know but google knows it remembers the national security agency intercepts requests that would have us border it knows will be. a national security agency whistleblower who was the research head of the national security agency's signals intelligence division describes this as

a turnkey totalitarianism that all the infrastructure has been built for absolute totalitarianism it's just a matter of turning the key and actually the key has already been turned a little bit and it's now affecting people who are targeted for us drone strikes organizations like wiki leaks. national security reporters who are having their sources investigated is already partly turned and the question is would will go all the way. meanwhile on a more personal note a songe dismissed reports his health is deteriorating and you can see more from the world's top whistleblower in the full interview at any time on our website r.t. dot com. u.s. private bradley manning who is charged with passing classified u.s. documents to wiki leaks says he considered suicide while in detention speaking

publicly for the first time since his arrest two years ago the twenty four year old told the pretrial hearing that his detained. conditions made him feel like a caged animal and he wanted to hang himself his defense team claim he has suffered mistreatment and peace in detention and says the charges should be dropped because of his ordeal chashma dar a lawyer and author of a book on manning says even some members of the military sympathetic to his plight opinion in the military and intelligence and law enforcement is quite divided about this i am not going to lie most people in the military have a very strict by the book attitude towards many of the rules not all the rules but many and would like to see that you convicted but i have talked with infantry one of whom who is caught on camera at that infamous collateral murder helicopter video who sees bradley manning is a hero who sees the leaks of the iraq war lords including i don't look up to video

as an unqualified good because now americans can finally see how that war is actually going in ditto for the afghan war logs there are also people in the f.b.i. who think such a thing is we get leaks is very good for national security including the former director of the minneapolis office of the f.b.i. fully roundly who is a time magazine person of the year in two thousand and two and i have a long interview in my book with the former top cia analyst ray mcgovern who also sees that sir public knowledge of this benefit to the public debate about our wars should be in measurable good so there is disagreement that the military and intelligence communities about this. now coming up shortly. ballot box drama the way the opposition boy tells parliamentary polls state saying they are unconstitutional claiming the new government lacks political popularity it's a missing. day for the british media have

a certain publishes his damning report and course the time to pressure regulation in the u.k. on the details of the short break. waves of corruption are rocking russia hundreds of millions of dollars vanished from apec building projects and russia's got a nice satellite project a real estate scandal has also led to the defense minister being fired note i said fire in russia we hear a lot about corruption scandals and the reaction is usually firing or forced resignation and maybe that would be ok another country but russia has big dreams in a big country that is big corruption spoiling all of those dreams

a country can't survive with every infrastructural or scientific project is so dry from within whether the government is unwilling or unable to sternly punish these offenders is a huge topic by could tell you that if there's no real fear of punishment this will just keep going on for ever perhaps it's time to put a big asterisk for high level corruption next to the moratorium on the death penalty but that's just my opinion. if if. the russians would be soon which brightened if you knew about someone from fondest impressions. please for instance on t.v. dot com.

parents versus social workers docu netty laptop get any nearer than that good many children have become prizes to fight for why does the law or threaten families of the social fora to see me in the form of the a right of willful minimal me faith in what they have any kind of suspicion about the world war three of your children are often a just better at bringing up kids than their own mom and dad even from what we have an industry that is so. concentrated on the other for trade children. safe.

welcome back kuwait's parliamentary poll has been hit by an opposition boycott the shiite minority though which refused to join the no show campaign grabbed the biggest tally of seats with the number of sunni islamist led opposition places noticeably cut the wealthy gulf state has seen months of anti-government protests and corruption allegations the ruling monna case been accused of amending voting

rules to influence the ballot lucy caffein off as this report. polls are closed doors olds are in but the battle over kuwait's political future has only just begun as expected the new parliament is largely consisting of folks who are considered to be closely allied with the ruling power but that is because the opposition didn't front any candidates in a boycott of the vote they've even questioned the outcome before the last ballot was cast voter turnout varied widely from polling place to polling place but with very low numbers at some locations the legitimacy of the results are certainly bound to be questioned now the crisis was sparked after the islamist dominated parliament it was dismissed over a row with the ruling power of the situation was then brought to a boiling point after the emir issued a surprise decree changing the country's complicated voting laws critics allege that it was a move in order to force a more compliant parliament which had sparked massive street battles as well now

the political rift is only likely to deepen the question is whether the opposition is now going to take their fight to the streets and whether the monarchy will respond with a heavy hand course what happens here has implications far beyond kuwait's borders as an opec member any sort of unrest is bound to affect oil markets the country is also a hub for the pentagon's ground forces with thousands of combat troops stationed here as a military counterweight to iran now the gulf monarchies have been struggling to fend off possible instability from the arab spring with varying degrees of success kuwait is largely seen as the most tolerant of the countries in this region but the worry is of course that the trend could be reversed recent months have seen as fleeting clashes between the position groups and security forces who have used tear gas stun grenades and rubber bullets to disperse crowds of political gatherings of more than twenty people have been banned and activists are complaining of a clampdown against the center authorities and did allow thousands of protesters to

gather for a peaceful rally on friday but the worry is. that the next few weeks are bound to test the limits of the government's tolerance as well as the self-control displayed by the opposition and what happens here in kuwait could very well write the next chapter of the arab spring this account for no r.t. kuwait's. britain's coalition government is divided following the leveson report into press standards u.k. newspapers were accused of wreaking havoc on the lives of innocent people with the report calling for a legally bank regulator which critics fear could clamp down on press freedom. reports revelations that the british. phone hacking sparked a wave of public revulsion and kicked off one of the biggest media scandals the u.k. has. at times that threatened to engulf not just leak story. but downing street as well as the allegations went all the way to the heart the british

government to douse the flames number ten ordered the creation of the leveson inquiry in order to investigate the claims and now two years in the making after a chorus line of celebrity witnesses and millions in taxpayers' money the leveson report damning about the press and heavily critical of both the police and the government for what it says was their cozy relationship with the media cameron has been shown with hunt to have been actually batting for the murdoch empire as part of all of this so you know i think you know there needs to be a bit more of a focus on the five years of the police to actually do anything about these criminal acts lord leveson his recommendation is behind the standards of self-regulation by the press in forced by legislation and that's what critics fear could stifle the already declining newspaper industry and deal a huge blow to the freedom of the press in the u.k.

is there any way in which you can be a little bit censored or a little bit monitored. and most people say no with britain now in the midst of a post leveson hearing over it's the country's two top politicians who are likely to be the most embarrassed david cameron might be suffering from some uncomfortable flashbacks back in october the prime minister promised to support the leveson recommendations as long as they went bonkers and cut to last week i have some serious concerns and misgivings on this recommendation they break down into issues of principle practicality and city but david cameron's change of heart regarding the inquiries findings would be causing him half the headache that nick clegg might be nursing at the moment the liberal democrat deputy prime minister used to talk about liberal democracy a labor previous essence will be remembered as the government who took your freedoms away. we want to be remembered as the ones who gave them but not anymore

here he is after leveson published their report i have always said that i would support lord justice leveson reforms providing they are proportionate and workable and i will come on to why i believe that is the case as far as the report's corporate core proposal is concerned namely a tougher system of so for a glacial supported by new independent checks recognised in law recent polls suggest that over two thirds of britons have little or no faith in the newspaper industry anymore and with revelations about the strong links between the police the politicians and the media it's not only trust in fleet street that. i think. obviously we are being very worried about. some time i think it's always going on between should keep an eye on it and be aware of it. with opinions raging for and against new legislation it's turning into a no win situation for those in power by questioning the results of the inquiry

david cameron looked to his critics like he abandoned the victims of media intrusion for some good press which is what got the government in trouble in the first place. r.t. london. well we've spent more stories on our website including flying into trouble washington pushes its drone program over the us a spate of crashes and civilian authorities questioning the safe they find out more at r.t. dot com plus inside online amateurish news agencies are left red in the face after publishing a scientifically floor diagram they claimed was proof of iran's nuclear bomb which critics say could have been produced by any nuclear science. now coming up shortly in r.t. there's underlying ten. between russia and finland about the rights of children in

mixed russian finnish families stay with us for a documentary as we report on how children are suffering from the actions. means in this story even for specialists how a voice can produce several sounds it warms the to do lenience the art of throat singing comes naturally picked up like a language. a language of communicating with nature it said that's where throat singing originates from the names believe not only animals but also all surrounding objects

like reverse forests and even stones of souls imitating the sounds they believe assumes to capture the power of nature. was. there are special instruments that accompany the singing if gainey says there is even a legend about his instrument a gill it says once there lived a poor shefford who had the best horse that won every competition but jealous people killed it on the horse was revived as an instrument that was it of so pitiful is because of the spirit of the horse came to his dream and said make an instrument from the tree the sounding board from the leather of my face the strings . and to remember me make an engraving of my head part of the instrument he did so i called the instrument again you. which means come back and this melody on the

instrument is called. to fly as one of the most famous groups in the republic their next goal is to tour peru and they say for you were opinion since difficult to pick up and sing so i asked them to teach me and see if i can do it chill you cheerlead the. shero you stand out and that i was sure you would say get out who was you think gang are oh. but now it is the and moody part of the song and not the actual throat singing which i wouldn't even try to repeat. so maybe you have to be born here to be able to sing like this i thought so until i met she looks like

a deveny and i don't even speak their language but she is from japan. most of us too far in mind that she come from two hundred years ago until soppy here she's not planning a professional singing career but she keeps practicing just because it's become part of her nature. for a child to be taken from a family something really serious and extraordinary must happen. social services here are in no way course when the finnish system has decided something there is nothing that can be done it's not a mistake of them it's just how they work. don't take away a child without reason

a child does not belong to his parents but to the states. when they bore me here the policeman asked me many times does your mum abuse you but i said no she didn't . you know i've recently been to stonier and bradenton a present which i always bring him some presents candies sweets from his tonia. the russian citizen or him asylum in this brief packing ritual means the weekend has begun. it's also a time for celebration she's going to see her son. at weekends

they make me an appointment in their on saturday or in sun and with the subject so i take this train. overall it takes me one day to get there meet with anton and return. nothing if you need under supervision and spent three hours together would have been there are supervisors and an interpreter present at the meeting on their behalf. so they can write a check for us that they find that it takes two hours by train to reach korea on the west coast of finland from temporary in the south not even this link fee journey there was enough to tell the entire story of three people at olds with two countries in the mid ninety's remembered parvo cell and from finland they were in a relationship for some time before getting married they lived together for ten years then they divorced. nine months after pam and i got divorced and ton was born on october the second two thousand.